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Good Night, Sweet Prince
Our critic assesses the achievement of Martin Amis, Britain’s most famous literary son.
Columns That Scrutinized, and Skewered, the Literary World
“NB by J.C.” collects the variegated musings of James Campbell in the Times Literary Supplement.
After Writing About Mental Illness, Kay Redfield Jamison Turns to Healers
In “Fires in the Dark,” Jamison, known for her expertise on manic depression, delves into the quest to heal. Her new book, she says, is a “love song to psychotherapy.”
A Classic of Golden Age Detective Fiction Turns 100
Dorothy L. Sayers dealt with emotional and financial instability by writing “Whose Body?,” the first of many to star the detective Lord Peter Wimsey.
Did She Cheat? A Century Later, a Novel’s Mystery Still Stumps.
“Dom Casmurro,” by Machado de Assis, teaches us to read — and reread — with precise detail and masterly obfuscation.
For ‘The Late Americans,’ Grad School Life Equals Envy, Sex and Ennui
Brandon Taylor’s novel circulates among Iowa City residents, some privileged, some not, but all aware that their possibilities are contracting.
A Brief Guide to Martin Amis’s Books
The acclaimed British novelist was also an essayist, memoirist and critic of the first rank.
The Best Romance Novels of the Year (So Far)
Looking for an escapist love story? Here are 2024’s sexiest, swooniest reads.
What Book Should You Read Next?
Finding a book you’ll love can be daunting. Let us help.
What Autocracy Feels Like: the View From One Turkish Neighborhood
In a new book, the journalist Suzy Hansen plumbs an Istanbul community for insights into Turkey’s hard-right turn.
Luke Evans Finds His Ballad of Sexual Liberation
What does it take to play Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Show” on Broadway? Fishnets, five-inch heels, and an endless supply of glitter.
Sizzling Summer Thrillers
Our columnist on the month’s standout books.
She’d Never Published a Book Without Paul Auster Reading It First
Until now, in a new memoir that has Siri Hustvedt writing about the highs, lows and late-life tragedies of their glamorous literary marriage.
In These Books, You Don’t Have to Be Young to Save the World
The best-selling author Fonda Lee recommends fantasy and science fiction novels with older, wiser, absolutely epic heroes.
Five Publishers and Scott Turow Sue Meta and Mark Zuckerberg
The class-action lawsuit accuses the tech giant and its founder and chief executive of infringing on authors’ copyrights.
The Murdaugh Murders as Southern Gothic Horror Story
“The Family Man,” by the novelist and poet James Lasdun, brings a literary voice and elaborate detail to a case that gripped the nation.
Testing a Mother-Daughter Bond Forged Across Prison Bars
Partly inspired by her life, Harriet Clark’s “The Hill” portrays a young girl navigating between her beloved mother’s jail cell and the world outside.
What Happens When You Try to Fulfill All Possible Desires?
In a new novel told in interlinked stories, Dylan Landis revisits a dauntless family she has written about since 2009.
A Forgotten River Buried Under Paris Swells With Secrets
“Riverwork,” by Lisa Robertson, considers the lost history of the Bièvre and the lives of working women once linked to it.
Never Let History Get in the Way of Good TV
Séamas O’Reilly’s new novel is a boisterous sendup of “prestige” media and its distortion of Northern Ireland’s complex past.
Pulitzer Prizes 2026: A Guide to the Winning Books and Finalists
“We the People,” by Jill Lepore, won the history prize, and Daniel Kraus received the fiction prize for “Angel Down.”
Do You Know These Unfinished Novels That Were Published Anyway?
Try this short quiz on books that arrived after their authors departed.
A Memoir of Grief, and the Ghosts That Linger After a Loss
In a new book, Siri Hustvedt recalls her life with the writer Paul Auster and the story of his illness.
Elizabeth Strout’s Latest Feels Like a Fresh Start
“The Things We Never Say” leaves behind Crosby, Maine, for Massachusetts, where a middle-aged history teacher discovers a long-buried family secret.
For 3 Generations on a Scottish Island, Secrets Can Only Stay Secret So Long
In the powerful and surprising “John of John,” Douglas Stuart sends a young art student back home to a family he thought he’d left behind.
Patricia Cornwell Takes a Scalpel to Her Own Life Story
Her new memoir, “True Crime,” traces how she survived a Southern Gothic upbringing to emerge as one of the world’s most famous thriller writers.
A Raucous Tale of Found Family by the Author of ‘The Help’
Kathryn Stockett’s prodigious second novel, “The Calamity Club,” brings together an unlikely group of spinsters, sex workers and orphans in Depression-era Mississippi.
17 Years After ‘The Help,’ Kathryn Stockett Returns to Mississippi
It was a blockbuster hit, yet she says she was “fired” by her publisher. After a spell in Bali, she’s back on home turf with “The Calamity Club.”
Putin’s Rise Seems Inevitable. Could This Guy Have Stopped It?
In “The Successor,” the exiled journalist Mikhail Fishman tells the story of a charming Russian politician who might have made his country into a liberal democracy.
She Helped Come Up With Critical Race Theory. What Moved Her to Do It?
In her memoir “Backtalker,” Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw shows how personal trauma spurred her influential and controversial ideas about race and gender.
Our Favorite Books for Every Type of Mom
Need a Mother’s Day gift? Try one of these recent releases.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Girl, in Soviet Ukraine
Eleven-year-old Genya plays the pretending game as she crams for an art school entrance exam in Chernobyl’s wake.
6 New Books We Love This Week
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times.
Xochitl Gonzalez’s Favorite Books Are the Ones She Gives Away
“When I love something, I urgently must put it in someone’s hands,” says the novelist, whose new “Last Night in Brooklyn” is an ode to old-style friendship.